FuzzyBit - blurring the blogs of the web Someone said that being a stay-at-home dad is an excuse to be young again. I think that’s true. The other night I dreamt of Smurfs. Just Smurfs. During the day children’s songs and nursery rhymes go through my head repeatedly. Do I have to be young 24/7 though? Can’t I just be young again sometimes?
I play with Rea and her toys. I try to encourage her to play music and to read and she’s great. Sometimes she’ll be quiet with her little books for quite a while when she’s not banging away at her toys. I just watch her processing her picture books or touch alphabet app. I will play her electric toy piano playing childrens’ songs to encourage her musical side.
I would look for sheet music and play her some songs on her toy keyboard. This lets me be youthful again as I brush up on my rusty musical skills and learn anew. Little did I know that the alphabet song tune is the same as the tune for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. My whole world came crashing down in that moment of realization. What else from my childhood did I so blatantly overlook?
I try to keep my adultfulness though by wondering how I can reverse-engineer her toys so that they can have more features or do things that they should be doing beyond their limited functionality? It would be so awesome to give all her toys web-capability. Then I back away from the reverse-engineering toys because it doesn’t fall into my “micro-project” framework. I go back to my blogging because it’s small enough to do.
After I wrote that the screen is the new literacy, I saw that the Reading Rainbow had released its own app. How cool it is to see things for the first time – and again.